Archive record · Brewery
Cowboy Trail Brewery
Bragg Creek, Alberta, Canada
- Founded
- 2024
- Archive ID
- TB-CDHGP64H
- Last checked
- 2026-10-02
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Summary
Founded January 2024 by Jason Traviss; first products on Alberta shelves May 2024. Brews and sells from the HUT at Bragg Creek Distillers, 27 Burnside Drive, Bragg Creek, in which the brewery owners invested (cowboytrail.beer). Spent mash goes to Bragg Creek Distillers for moonshine and to horse feed and dog biscuits (High Country News, 2024-09-03). Dark Ale: Gold, World Beer Awards 2025 (search summary; not yet verified on the awards site).
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Ownership & corporate history
- Founded by Jason TravissJanuary 2024
What the sources say
Founded January 2024 by Jason Traviss (High Country News, 2024-09-03); the brewery's owners invested in Bragg Creek Distillers and operate from its HUT at 27 Burnside Drive, Bragg Creek (cowboytrail.beer). Found via the ABBeer.ca roster reconciliation of 2026-09-17: the only listing of 150 not already in the archive. Source: https://highcountrynews.ca/business-profile-cowboy-trail-brewery-sep-2024/
Ownership history is kept as dated events, so a change of owner never overwrites the one before it.
Where it is
50.95377, -114.56017
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Timeline
- 2024-01Brewery dream comes to fruition
Source: "That dream came to fruition in January 2024, then the products first hit shelves in May throughout Alberta."
- 2024-05Products first hit Alberta shelves
Source: "then the products first hit shelves in May throughout Alberta"
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Awards
- 2025
Bronze — 3F - Kolsch — Highnoon
Canada Beer Cup
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Open questions
- UnknownownerOwner not established. Searched 2026-10-01 (High Country News business profile). High Country News (September 2024) says the brewery was 'created by' Jason Traviss; it does not call him owner.
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Sources
- ownerUnknown
Owner not established. Searched 2026-10-01 (High Country News business profile). High Country News (September 2024) says the brewery was 'created by' Jason Traviss; it does not call him owner.
Cowboy Trail Brewery: page searched for its owner · highcountrynews.ca
NewsMedium reliabilitySource accessed 2026-10-01Claim last checked 2026-10-01
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